Treasury Launches Multi-media Campaign To Help Young Adults Control Their Credit the u.s. treasury department unveiled a new multi-media campaign today aimed at combating financial illiteracy among young adults. the ad campaign, featuring an interactive online game and radio and television spots, warns its audience, "don't let your credit put you in a bad place." www.ustreas.gov
Mailbag: Feeling Overwhelmed By Credit Card Debt? - Cnbc dipping into the mailbag today, i wanted to address some questions that seem pressing on many minds: sinking iras, too much debt and love and debt. a new england edition: carolyn in massachusetts asks: i'm 20 years old and in january i put $2500 in a ... www.cnbc.com
Todd Ossenfort: Soldier Might Be Able To Cut Car-loan Rate q i bought a car for $15,000 and my interest rate runs me 18 percent. i didn't think it was that bad because i am a first-time buyer. i am wondering what is the best way to drop that interest rate fast? www.azstarnet.com
Across The Usa, Anxiety Rises About What's Ahead the years of easy money were fun while they lasted. banks and credit card providers were so flush with cash that they could help virtually anyone including many who had trouble juggling their bills pay for whatever they wanted. but the party's over. www.usatoday.com
Financial Crisis Likely To Linger For Car, Home Buyers - Los Angeles Times the crisis in the financial markets could make it even tougher to get loans to buy cars or houses -- and the federal reserve didn't make things any easier by declining to lower interest rates this week. experts say any hope of relief from the ongoing ... www.latimes.com
Sean O'grady: Banking Relies On Confidence – And There Isn't Any - The Independent 'superbank' puts 40,000 jobs at risk the lavish party where the fate of hbos was sealed the mayfair mafia who helped to bring down a banking giant hamish mcrae: easy money won't help economies weather this global banking crisis unemployment rate ... www.independent.co.uk
4 Steps To Boost Car Trade-in Value getting a great deal on a trade-in comes down to preparation and a little persistence. feeds.foxbusiness.com
Gm Calls Car Sales 'ok' As It Shows Off The Volt - Chicago Tribune general motors corp. chief executive officer rick wagoner said that while credit-market losses and the bankruptcy of lehman brothers holdings inc. may erode consumer confidence, sales this month are "ok." "we'll have to see the impact from all the ... www.chicagotribune.com
Turmoil Bodes Ill For Car, Home Loans - Pittsburgh Tribune Review the crisis in the financial markets could make it even tougher to get loans to buy cars or houses -- and the federal reserve didn't make things any easier by declining this week to lower interest rates. experts say any hope of relief from the ongoing ... www.pittsburghlive.com
To Settle Claim, Transunion Offering Free Credit Monitoring in a class action settlement, the credit bureau transunion has agreed to provide free credit-monitoring services to millions of consumers to settle claims it illegally passed along private information for marketing purposes. www.heraldtribune.com
Turmoil Bodes Ill For Car, Home Loans the crisis in the financial markets could make it even tougher to get loans to buy cars or houses -- and the federal reserve didn't make things any easier by declining this week to lower interest rates. www.pittsburghlive.com
Candidates Scramble To Shift Economic Message - San Francisco Gate with economic anxiety rising, republican john mccain and democrat barack obama scrambled wednesday to adjust their messages to connect more directly with financially struggling voters. car bomb, ambush kills 16 at us embassy in yemen 09.17.08 man on ... www.sfgate.com
Getting Schooled On Identity Theft - Philadelphia Daily News the e-mails were convincing, at least to the more than 100 temple university computer users who sent in their user names and passwords. but the messages weren't actually from the school's tumail system. they were from hackers on a phishing expedition ... www.philly.com
Bad Finance 101 - A Programmer's Guide o'reilly's focus has long been on programming issues (or programmer issues) and that focus remains very much in place. however, it is worth understanding how the grief playing out on wall street will have a very significant impact upon the it industry within the next four to six months, even despite the fact that up until now the contagion seems largely to have remained contained in the ... broadcast.oreilly.com
Your Credit Score Counts if you ever want to buy a house or a car, you'd better stay on top of your credit score. here's how. www.forbes.com
Us Stocks Sink After Government Bailout Of Aig - International Herald Tribune new york : stocks skidded again wednesday, with anxieties about the financial system still running high even after the government bailed out the insurer american international group inc. a day after wall street regained some of monday's nosedive, the ... www.iht.com
Aig Bailout Felt Locally - Channel 3000 madison, wis. -- the white house and capitol hill are supporting the federal reserve for its $85 billion bailout of insurance giant aig. but the move also shook up wall street with the dow plummeting 449 points on wednesday. "i've certainly seen a ... www.channel3000.com
What Aig Means For You the day after the feds provided an $85 billion loan in taxpayer money to help bolster cash-strapped insurer aig, the dow jones industrials plummeted more than 400 points. ydr.inyork.com